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[jigglypuffdreams]

I put the hours in, but I feel like I've gotten really inefficient at the end. I really can't tell how much of my time was spent on Facebook, drifting off, extra long lunches, etc.

When people say they study X hours a day, I have no idea what that really means. X quality, fully-attentive hours? Or really Y hours with Z hours kinda screwing around.

It's also hard for me because I'm a very goal-oriented person. But it's impossible to tell how well you'll do on the essays.

Dude, I promise you, the vast majority of us did not work anymore than five actual hours on all but our very hardest, slave-driving days. I could easily count on my hand the number of days I have worked more than five legitimate hours. Don't get me wrong -- I'll be at my computer from 8am til 8pm, but most of that time was procrastination.

Yeah, same here. That's why I gave up trying to keep track of any "8 hour per day" goal or anything like that. I measured progress by doing tasks, now that I'm in reviewing stage I try to make up tasks for myself like "read my outlines" or "review practice essays" or whatever. But I never measured my studying in raw hours when I was in law school either, so stick to what you know I guess?

[pkt63]

Ok, grateful for the replies. Backed off from the red self-destruct button. Still won't be studying much harder/longer than I have the last two days, but am going to avoid spending more time on guilt trips.

[Xferr]

I put the hours in, but I feel like I've gotten really inefficient at the end. I really can't tell how much of my time was spent on Facebook, drifting off, extra long lunches, etc.

When people say they study X hours a day, I have no idea what that really means. X quality, fully-attentive hours? Or really Y hours with Z hours kinda screwing around.

It's also hard for me because I'm a very goal-oriented person. But it's impossible to tell how well you'll do on the essays.

Dude, I promise you, the vast majority of us did not work anymore than five actual hours on all but our very hardest, slave-driving days. I could easily count on my hand the number of days I have worked more than five legitimate hours. Don't get me wrong -- I'll be at my computer from 8am til 8pm, but most of that time was procrastination.

Yeah, same here. That's why I gave up trying to keep track of any "8 hour per day" goal or anything like that. I measured progress by doing tasks, now that I'm in reviewing stage I try to make up tasks for myself like "read my outlines" or "review practice essays" or whatever. But I never measured my studying in raw hours when I was in law school either, so stick to what you know I guess?

I'm goal oriented as well. But since we really have no way of knowing how we're doing on the essays, I can't really gauge if I was being rigorous enough. Then you hear the stories of people working 25 hours a day and can't help but wonder if it was enough.